JPH05298292A - Document processor with automatic editing function - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Besides automatically editing document data in accordance with preset editing rules, it also takes into account elements specific to the specified paper type. [Structure] When a paper type is designated, the CPU 1 creates an edit rule corresponding to the type of the edit rule dictionary memory 12-2.
Read from. Then, the CPU 1 uses the document memory 12-1.
The document data in is analyzed and based on the analysis result, this document data is edited according to the editing rule read from the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus having an automatic editing function for automatically editing document data in a word processor or the like in accordance with preset editing rules.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a word processor,
During or after creating a document, you can perform editing work to align the layout of the entire document or underline a specific character or line, or to perform partial highlighting by enlarging the character size. In addition, both horizontal writing and vertical writing can be selected according to the printing format of the Japanese document.

[0003]

However, although the above-mentioned editing work is an incidental work for creating a document, it takes a lot of time and effort, which is a great burden for the user. By the way, even if the paper of the same size is changed and the printing direction of the characters is changed from vertical writing to horizontal writing, in the case shown in FIG. Corresponding to the left-right positional relationship in horizontal writing, no particular inconvenience occurs when changing the printing direction. However, as a general print layout, it is not always necessary to replace the vertical positional relationship in vertical writing with the horizontal positional relationship in horizontal writing. For example, if vertical writing is changed to horizontal writing as shown in FIG.
The character string of is horizontally written and is arranged at the left-justified position, but in general, the date entry position should be arranged at the right-justified position when horizontally written, which does not follow the actual situation. In addition, considering the relationship between the element of character size and the paper to be printed, it is possible to increase the character size for emphasis when printing on blank paper, It is common to avoid using enlarged characters on lined paper. An object of the present invention is to allow document data to be automatically edited according to a preset editing rule, and also to be edited in consideration of an element peculiar to a designated paper type.

[0004]

The means of the present invention are as follows. (1) The document storage means is a random access memory or a disk device for storing document data. (2), the analysis means analyzes the edited contents of the document data stored in the document storage means. Here, the edited contents are the character arrangement state such as right justification and left justification, and the character size for partial emphasis. (3) The edit rule storage means stores the edit rule for each type of paper. Here, the edit rule storage means stores, for example, an edit rule that defines a layout state of a document for each paper type, and an edit rule that defines partial emphasis of a document for each paper type. (4) When the paper to be used for printing is designated, the reading means reads the editing rule corresponding to the type of designated paper from the editing rule storage means. (5) The editing means automatically edits the document data in the document storage means according to the editing rule read by the reading means based on the analysis result of the analyzing means.

[0005]

The operation of the means of the present invention is as follows. Now, in the editing rule storage means, types of paper, for example, vertical writing original paper, horizontal writing original paper, report paper, vertical writing blank paper,
If the editing rule is stored for each horizontal blank page,
If vertical document paper is specified as the paper to be used,
The reading unit reads the editing rule corresponding to the type of the designated sheet from the editing rule storage unit. Then, the editing unit automatically edits the document data in the document storage unit according to the editing rule read by the reading unit based on the analysis result of the analyzing unit. Therefore, in addition to being able to automatically edit the document data according to the preset editing rule, it is possible to edit in consideration of the element peculiar to the designated paper type.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor having an automatic editing function. The CPU 1 controls various operations of this word processor in accordance with a system program stored in the ROM 2, and the CPU 1, as its peripheral device, corresponds to the keyboard 3, the CRT display device 4, the disk device 5, and the printer device 6. Are connected via a keyboard control unit 7, a CRT control unit 8, an external storage control unit 9, and a printer control unit 10.
Controls these input / output operations.

When a key on the keyboard 3 is operated, the keyboard control section 7 generates and outputs a key code corresponding to the operation key and gives it to the CPU 1. CRT control unit 8 is C
Under the control of the PU 1, the image data stored in the video RAM (VRAM) 11 is read to read the CRT display device 4
Display output from. The external storage controller 9 controls data writing / reading operations with respect to the disk device 5 that stores a document file or the like. Printer control unit 10 is CP
Under the control of U1, the document data read from the document memory 12-1 in the RAM 12 is printed out from the printer device 6.

The RAM 12 is a main storage device including an editing rule dictionary memory 12-2, a work memory 12-3, a recipient dictionary memory 12-4, a sender dictionary memory 12-5, etc. in addition to the document memory 12-1. The document memory 12-1 is a text memory for storing the input and created document data as usual. The editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 constitutes an automatic editing function, and the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 stores the editing rule for each sheet in correspondence with the type of sheet. Here, the CPU 1 analyzes the editing contents of the document data stored in the document memory 12-1, and automatically edits the document data in the document memory 12-1 based on the analysis result. At this time, when the paper type is specified by the key operation, the CPU 1 reads the editing rule corresponding to the specified paper type from the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2, and edits the document data according to the editing rule. ..

FIG. 2 shows a part of the editing rules preset in the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2. The editing rules include a rule (A) for the whole document and a rule (B) for the document constituent elements. ) And exist. The document constituent elements are elements extracted by the document analysis, and are character strings such as “large headline of the entire document”, “date”, “receiver”, “sender” in this embodiment. The editing rule including the rule (A) and the rule (B) is set in the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 corresponding to the type of paper. Here, as shown in the figure, the type of paper is "vertical writing original paper",
There are “horizontal writing original paper”, “report paper”, “vertical writing blank paper”, “horizontal writing blank paper”, and also “vertical writing letter paper”, “horizontal writing letter paper” and the like. Then, there are the following rules (A) relating to the entire document. Is there a limit on the font size (full-width or free-width)? Is the character position (character pitch) in full-width or half-width units? Do you allow even allocation? Further, there are the following rules (A) relating to document components. Whether the headline is double-width or full-width only.
Is the print position of the large headline centered? Is the date print position shifted to the right (lower side)? Is the print position of the recipient moved to the left side (upper side)? The sender's print position is on the right side (lower side)
To send to? In these rules (A) and (B), the following editing rules are set for the "vertical writing original paper". Rules for general documents (A): Character size is full-width only, character position is full-width unit, and even allocation is not allowed. Rule for document components (B) ... Large headings are not double-byte characters, large headings are centered,
Dates are moved up, recipients are moved up, senders are moved down.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS. 3 is a flowchart showing the automatic editing process at the time of printing, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing in detail the large headline editing process (step A7) of FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is the date editing process of FIG. 3 (step A9).
2 is a flowchart showing in detail. First, when the type of paper to be printed is designated from the keyboard 3 (step A1), the CPU 1 determines the rule (A) and the rule (B) from the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 as the editing rule corresponding to the designated type of paper. Read, work memory 12-
3 (step A2). Next, the CPU 1 specifies the document data in the document memory 12-1 to be printed and analyzes the structure of the document data (step A3). Here, as a result of analyzing the document structure, the CPU 1 extracts “large headline of the entire document”, “date”, “recipient”, “sender”, etc. as document constituent elements. The extraction conditions in this case are illustrated. Then, it is as follows. Large headline sentence: One large headline per document. Do not include punctuation. Not the date, recipient, or sender. Be preceded by a character string with a symbol (for example, a symbol such as "1" or (1)). Date: X is the year number, N is the number, and W is the day of the week. Match the following patterns, for example. "(X) Nth Nth Nth (W)", "NNNNW", "NNNN (W)"
etc. Sender, receiver ... A person name or a company name registered in advance in the recipient dictionary memory 12-4 and the sender dictionary memory 12-5.

When the document structure analysis process is completed,
Next, automatic edit processing is performed to edit the document data according to the type of paper. First, it is checked whether the document is finished, that is, whether the automatic editing process has been completed for all the sentences of the document data to be printed (step A4). The one sentence is taken out from the beginning of a certain document data (step A5), and whether it is a headline (step A6) or a date (step A).
8) It is checked whether it is the receiver (step A10) or the sender (step A12). In this case, the check is performed with reference to the analysis result of the document structure described above. Here, if the sentence corresponds to any one of the headline, date, recipient, and sender, the corresponding automatic editing process (steps A7, A9, A11, A13) is performed, and the edited result is controlled by the printer. The data is output to the print buffer (not shown) in the unit 10 (step A15). On the other hand, if the sentence does not correspond to any of the above, step A
In step 14, the sentence is output to the print buffer in the printer control unit 10 as it is without being automatically edited, and then the process returns to step A4.

Now, the automatic editing process for a large headline sentence will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First,
The editing rule read from the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 and held in the work memory 12-3 is referred to, and it is checked whether the character size of the rule A is only full width (step B1). Now, if the designated paper is the vertical writing original paper, the character size is only full-width, but in the case of the vertical writing blank paper or the horizontal writing blank paper, the double-width is also allowed. Here, if the character size is not limited to full-width characters, it is checked whether or not the entire large-headline sentence can be accommodated in a line based on the number of characters of the large-headline sentence when enlarged to double-width characters (step B2). .. Here, if there is no wraparound to the next line and it can fit in the line, the character size is enlarged to the specified double-width, and the large headline sentence is changed to the enlarged character (step B).
3).

In this way, when the automatic editing process for the character size of the large headline sentence is completed by referring to the editing rule of rule (A), the editing position corresponding to the specified sheet is further referred to by referring to the editing rule. Perform automatic edit processing. First, it is checked whether or not the heading position of the editing rule is aligned with the center of the line (step B4).
Here, if centering is not specified, the headline sentence is arranged at a position to the left side (upper side) (step B).
6). On the other hand, if centering is specified, step B
5, the character position of the editing rule is checked whether it is a full-width unit or a half-width unit (step B5). Here, if the half-width unit is designated, the headline sentence is arranged in the center-aligned position in the half-width unit (step B7). If the full-width unit is designated, the large headline sentence is placed in the center-aligned position in full-width units (step B8).

Next, the automatic editing process for the date will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, by referring to the date position of the editing rule corresponding to the type of the designated paper, it is checked whether the right side (lower side) is aligned (step C1). As a result, if NO is determined in step C1, the date is arranged on the left side (upper side) (Step C2), but if YES is determined, the date is arranged on the right side (lower side). (Step C3).

The flowchart of FIG. 5 is also used for character string arrangement of the receiver and the sender, and similarly to the date arrangement, the character strings of the receiver and the sender are arranged according to the editing rule corresponding to the type of the designated sheet. It

In the above embodiment, the editing rule set in the editing rule dictionary memory 12-2 is fixedly prepared in advance by the maker side. However, the editing rule is set according to the user's usage situation. May be arbitrarily set or additionally registered. In this case, an arbitrary editing rule may be input and set in a conversational manner with the operator while displaying the editing rule on the setting screen as in the case of normal setting registration.

[0017]

According to the present invention, the document data can be automatically edited in accordance with a preset editing rule, and in addition, the elements peculiar to the designated paper type can be considered and edited. , The burden on the user can be greatly reduced, and even with ruled paper such as manuscript paper and report paper, horizontal writing paper, vertical writing paper, etc., it is possible to perform appropriate editing according to the type of paper, which is extremely practical. It will be highly responsive.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a word processor with an automatic editing function according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a part of editing rules preset in an editing rule dictionary memory 12-2.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the entire automatic editing process during printing.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing in detail the large headline editing process (step A7) of FIG.

5 is a flowchart showing in detail the date editing process (step A9) of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a print state diagram in the case where the vertical writing is changed to the horizontal writing in the related art, and (A) shows a proper state even if the printing direction is changed, and (B) shows the changing of the printing direction. The figure which illustrated the case where it became improper printing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 ROM 3 keyboard 6 printer device 10 printer control unit 12 RAM 12-1 document memory 12-2 editing rule dictionary memory 12-4 recipient dictionary memory 12-5 sender dictionary memory

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A document storage means for storing document data, an analysis means for analyzing editing contents of the document data stored in the document storage means, and an editing rule storage for storing an editing rule for each type of paper. Means, reading means for reading out the editing rule corresponding to the type of the designated paper from the editing rule storage means when a paper is designated, and document data in the document storage means based on the analysis result of the analyzing means. A document processing apparatus with an automatic editing function, comprising: an editing unit that edits according to the editing rule read by the reading unit. 2. The document processing apparatus with an automatic editing function according to claim 1, wherein the editing rule storage means stores an editing rule defining a layout state of the document for each type of paper. 3. The document processing apparatus with an automatic editing function according to claim 1, wherein the editing rule storage means stores an editing rule defining partial emphasis of a document for each type of paper.